Product Description

Action! Adventure! Penguins! This all new concoction is just one big wad of humor. Held together by dueling narrators, this volume features Mellville the penguin and a cast of several, in a race to save exploding cheese from the vast hordes of chicken ninjas! (Well, not that vast. There’s like, 5 of them.) But wait! There’s more! Interspersed are stories of Captain Cautious, the timid super hero, and Tbyrd Fearlessness, the inept outlaw and his search for fame, glory or possibly lunch. So if you like a good old fashioned story about ice machine repair and lobster infestations, this is the book for you. -Guaranteed 100% Comedy & Mayhem.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1540821 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8–The most impressive thing about this book is the author, who started his cartoon career at age 12 and is now 17. The comic follows the zany adventures of two young teens and a penguin as they race to save exploding cheese from chicken ninjas. Two bickering narrators tell this whimsical tale. The story tries to come off like a witty imitation of Jeff Smiths Bone, but ultimately feels more like an extended version of Dav Pilkeys Captain Underpants (both Scholastic). The illustrations lack detail, but they match the texts wackiness well; they come across as cheesy and retro. While the story falls short, it is a worthy effort from a young writer who obviously has a bright future.–Scott La Counte, Anaheim Public Library, CA
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From Booklist
Gr. 5-8. Fidget the penguin, a pair of daffy narrators, assorted evildoers, overly domesticated turkeys, and scenes from a small-town America that hopefully will never come to pass combine to keep the action in high gear in this collection of graphic-novel tales. Although author-artist Friesen is only 17 (" I began my cartooning career at age 12"), the comedy here is a cut above sophomoric high jinks, and his crisp artwork pays skillful, energetic homage to mid-twentieth-century black-and-white television cartoons. The two parts of the titular cheese tale bookend several unrelated vignettes, but the overall flow of the volume is smooth and nicely edited. The typeface is bold, and the panels are generous, so it's easy to find the details that make the verbal patter three-dimensional. With nothing risque and plenty of interesting goings-on, this will be welcomed by kids and by librarians alike. Francisca Goldsmith
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Review
"...Lookit! is great and recommended fun from the first page to the last." -- Midwest Book Review, May 10 2005

"...Lookit! is great and recommended fun from the first page to the last." --Midwest Book Review, May 10 2005

"...a real fun humourous story..." -- daily news, Feb 12, 2005

"...a real fun humourous story..." --daily news, Feb 12, 2005

"...weird and hilarious..." -- Wizard Edge Magazine, Jan 2003

"...weird and hilarious..." --Wizard Edge Magazine, Jan 2003

Customer Reviews

Interesting debut with much potential.
Ray Friesen, Lookit! Vol. 1: A Cheese-Related Incident and Other Stories (Don't Eat Any Bugs Productions, 2005)

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the current upswing in popularity in graphic novels is that a reasonably talented artists can, for all intents and purposes, self-publish a collection and get it picked up by a distributor major enough that it shows up on library shelves half a country away from its point of origin. A Cheese-Related Incident is a perfect example of this phenomenon.

A Cheese-Related Incident seems patterned after the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show, complete with fractured fairy tales and "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!" skits. It's decently written and illustrated, not the best thing you'll see all year, but certainly not the worst, either. What makes this such an interesting book, however, is the originality here; Friesen is not a well individual by any standards, and his sense of humor is a few (okay, a lot of) degrees off center. There are only a handful of graphic artists working today who can get away with doing stuff that's just out-and-out weird; Friesen seems, with a bit more learning and attention to the craft, to be poised to put himself on that same shelf.

An interesting debut with a great deal of potential. I'll be very interested to see how this series grows and changes over the years. ** ½

MY Son's Favorite COMICS!!!!
My son loves Ray's comics. We originally had to wait till family could get them for us from the West coast but are excited to see we can get them online!!! These are great fun for kids and adults.

NOW AVAILABLE OR ELSE!
Action! Adventure! Penguins! This all new concoction is just one big wad of humor. Held together by dueling narrators, this volume features Mellville the penguin and a cast of several, in a race to save exploding cheese from the vast hordes of chicken ninjas! (Well, not that vast. There's like, 5 of them.) But wait! There's more! Interspersed are stories of Captain Cautious, the timid super hero, and Tbyrd Fearlessness, the inept outlaw and his search for fame, glory or possibly lunch.

So if you like a good old fashioned story about ice machine repair and lobster infestations, this is the book for you. -Guaranteed 100% Comedy & Mayhem.


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Ray